Comments on: As Bridge and Tunnel tolls go, so goes the MTA http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/11/13/as-bridge-and-tunnel-tolls-go-so-goes-the-mta/ A New York City Subway Blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:57:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kid Twist http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/11/13/as-bridge-and-tunnel-tolls-go-so-goes-the-mta/#comment-57151 Kid Twist Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:29:43 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1629#comment-57151 Shouldn't that be RFKBTA? Shouldn’t that be RFKBTA?

]]> By: Marc Shepherd http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/11/13/as-bridge-and-tunnel-tolls-go-so-goes-the-mta/#comment-57135 Marc Shepherd Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:50:36 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1629#comment-57135 Rockefeller didn't <em>quite</em> renege on his promise. Moses was indeed retained by the MTA as a consultant without portfolio. For a while, he continued to show up at his old office every day. What Moses didn't realize, until it was too late, is that no one in the new management actually wanted his opinion. He was a consultant whom no one consulted with. After a while, he resigned once it became clear that the role had no teeth. Rockefeller <em>did</em> renege on the bridge across Oyster Bay and Rye, which he'd promised Moses would get built, and that Moses would supervise. By the late 1960s, the political climate for such projects had soured, and people were no longer willing to take Moses' word for it on things like costs and environmental impact. Rockefeller postponed the bridge a couple of times before finally killing it. Rockefeller didn’t quite renege on his promise. Moses was indeed retained by the MTA as a consultant without portfolio. For a while, he continued to show up at his old office every day. What Moses didn’t realize, until it was too late, is that no one in the new management actually wanted his opinion. He was a consultant whom no one consulted with. After a while, he resigned once it became clear that the role had no teeth.

Rockefeller did renege on the bridge across Oyster Bay and Rye, which he’d promised Moses would get built, and that Moses would supervise. By the late 1960s, the political climate for such projects had soured, and people were no longer willing to take Moses’ word for it on things like costs and environmental impact. Rockefeller postponed the bridge a couple of times before finally killing it.

]]> By: Alfred Beech http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/11/13/as-bridge-and-tunnel-tolls-go-so-goes-the-mta/#comment-57133 Alfred Beech Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:39:54 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1629#comment-57133 "By the 1960s, Moses was gone" Moses remained the head of the TBTA, which managed all the bridges and tunnels now under MTA control until March 1, 1968. Rockefeller tricked him into resigning from the TBTA by promising him a spot on the newly formed MTA, which would have more power (Moses' Achillies heel), but then reneged on his promise after the MTA came into being. “By the 1960s, Moses was gone”

Moses remained the head of the TBTA, which managed all the bridges and tunnels now under MTA control until March 1, 1968. Rockefeller tricked him into resigning from the TBTA by promising him a spot on the newly formed MTA, which would have more power (Moses’ Achillies heel), but then reneged on his promise after the MTA came into being.

]]>